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Provider Administration Tool

Maydene Fisher

The Provider Administration tool is a convenient means of configuring a messaging provider. A messaging provider, a third party service, handles the behind-the-scenes details of the routing and transmission of JAXM messages. The JAXM tutorial gives more information about messaging providers in the section Messaging Providers.

Note that Tomcat must be running in order to use the Provider Administration tool. Follow these steps to use it:

1. With Tomcat running, set your browser window to

       http://localhost:8080/index.html
    
   

2. Click on the link "JAXM Provider Administration Tool"

   A window will come up with text boxes for your user name and password. Enter the same user name and password you supplied to the installation wizard when you installed this release of the Java WSDP.

3. Follow the instructions given on the page that comes up

The Provider Administration tool is normally used by System Administrators, but others may use it as well. Exploring this tool gives you more of an idea of what a messaging provider needs to know. For example, a messaging provider maintains a list of the endpoints to which you can send messages. You can add a new endpoint to this list using the Provider Administration tool. If a message is not delivered successfully on the first try, a messaging provider will continue attempting to deliver it. You can specify the number of times the messaging provider should attempt delivery by supplying a retry limit. Setting this limit is another thing you can do with the Provider Administration tool.

The following lists the ways you can use the tool to set a messaging provider's properties.

• To add, modify, or delete an endpoint
• To change the number of retries (the number of times the provider will try to send a message)
• To change the retry interval (the amount of time the provider will wait before trying to send a message again)
• To change the directory where the provider logs messages
• To set the number of messages per log file

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